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What's one thing SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362721004788
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
100 LORALEE DR, ALBANY, NY 12205 · (518) 456-2608 · Albany County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
129 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (67).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 68.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 351 | 36.8% | 66.9% |
| SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 354 | 34.2% | 61.7% |
| VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VESTAL | 388 | 34.3% | 56.6% |
| NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 437 | 38.4% | 41.3% |
| ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 378 | 33.9% | 59.3% |
| FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 311 | 44.7% | 54.4% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #496 of 2,335 | #13 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #540 of 2,342 ▲ 97 | #13 of 46 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #663 of 2,343 ▼ 41 | #18 of 46 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #1,665 of 2,585 | #28 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,044 of 2,338 | #40 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #980 of 2,388 | #29 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.8% | #1,787 of 2,534 | #28 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #1,152 of 1,757 | #17 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
351
-50 (-12%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 418
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 351 | 23.3 | 15.1:1 | 37% (129) |
| 2023-24 | 376 | 21.6 | 17.4:1 | 32% (119) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 23.7 | 17.6:1 | 33% (138) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 27% (107) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 24.5 | 15.9:1 | 20% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 390 | 21 | 18.6:1 | 17% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 396 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 13% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 24 | 16.6:1 | 13% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 418 | 19 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school located in ALBANY, New York, in Albany County. Its grade span covers pre-K through 4, with 351 students on the rolls. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
Within SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 8 schools. The district enrolls 5,040 students.
The largest group at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White students, at 64%. Other groups make up 15% Asian, 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
The school has 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.1 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.2 fewer students per teacher than here. Of all students at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 37% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 61.5%. It scores 66.9%, 5.4 points above that figure.
Census data for Albany County show median household income comes to about $85,333, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 75 public schools in the county, enrolling about 39,946, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
ALBANY-SCHOHARIE-SCHENECTADY-SARATOGA BOCES is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 8 on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 50 students, from 401 to 351.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
- VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
- SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Other Saddlewood Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Saddlewood Elementary. SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCALA, FL · 1,007 students
Nearby schools
- ALBANY-SCHOHARIE-SCHENECTADY-SARATOGA BOCES0.9 mi · 294
- FOREST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 311
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 640
- VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 503
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,640
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 368
Frequently asked questions
About SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 351 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 15.1:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 64% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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